The teachers realized that focusing on children would generate interest among their 4th and 5th grade students studying the colonial period. The resulting narratives, which were developed through graduate coursework, under the direction of Dr. Marjoleine Kars, chair and associate professor of history at UMBC, span the early 1700s to the American Revolution. Read together, the stories are an inclusive portrait of life in London Town in the eighteenth-century colonial south. As a teaching resource, the book can be used across the disciplines and in a variety of subject areas.

The Children's Lives at Colonial London Town website has a number of interactive features, including maps, a timeline, and glossary. Site visitors will also find additional background information on the people and places in the stories and learn more about present-day London Town.

The project was the recipient of the 2012 Social Studies Program of Excellence Award from the Middle States Regional Council for the Social Studies, an affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies.